Word: comical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What exactly is anime? The first animated films in Japan date from the 1910s and were strongly influenced by French animators such as Emile Cohl. But in 1963, anime was catapulted into popular Japanese consciousness when comic strip artist Tezuka Osamu released for television an animated version of his comic character, Astroboy...
...undercurrents of unhappiness and angst grow stronger as the play continues, and tense interludes break up moments of comedy which recall the original "The Ozzie and Harriet Show." The deft interspersing of the serious with the comic can best be appreciated when the audience responds to the jokes and follows the premise of the play to its gory end. The play's ending reveals the cruel absurdity of the characters' attitudes by taking them to their logical extreme. Eventually, David can no longer coexist with his family: his perspective on life has been so altered by his bittersweet experience...
Nathaniel was working as a comic-book writer in Manhattan in 1995 when police in Burlington, Vermont, found his father's body in a flophouse. "I didn't know he was in Vermont--and sometimes homeless," Lachenmeyer, 27, admits. Propelled by curiosity and remorse, Lachenmeyer, who had no experience in filmmaking, hired a camera crew and set out to reconstruct his father's final years...
...grade school. It's your first kiss--that's a nervous thing, you know? That's what's so exciting about this, to be able to show the whole process of coming out for the first time." She's right--much of the episode mines a rich new comic vein for the series. And in this case, DeGeneres' desire for truthfulness--and for keeping her show's focus off dating, gay or straight ("Mary Richards didn't date that much," she points out)--fits well with Touchstone's and ABC's that the show proceed cautiously. "Ellen won't become...
TIME: You were a stand-up comic before you started your sitcom. That must have been a difficult profession for someone closeted...